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Mumbai, Eighteen years after the 7/11 serial train blasts case, the Bombay High Court on Friday constituted a special bench to hear the appeals filed by the convicts and confirm the death sentences.On July 11, 2006, seven blasts occurred at different locations in seven suburban trains of the...

Thane gangster Abu Salem, who is serving life sentence in the 1993 serial blasts case, was on Thursday shifted from Taloja Jail in Navi Mumbai and will be shifted to Nashik Central Jail amid tight police security said an official.Salem was taken from Taloja jail in a vehicle at 11.30 am, he...

Borno [Nigeria] At least 18 people have been killed and 48 others injured in bomb blasts in Nigeria's northeastern Borno state, CNN reported, citing state emergency services.The first blast took place at a wedding ceremony at around 3 pm (local time) on Saturday afternoon. Then, a second blast...

Mumbai: A special court in Mumbai on Saturday accepted a plea by gangster Abu Salem, who is serving life imprisonment in the 1993 serial blasts case, for a reduced jail term in lieu of the period of detention during the trial.Extradited from Portugal in 2005, Salem was convicted and sentenced...

Mumbai: A sessions court here on Tuesday rejected gangster Abu Salem's plea against the plan to transfer him from Navi Mumbai's Taloja jail to another jail in Maharashtra.Salem, sentenced to life imprisonment in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts case, claimed that the decision to shift him out of...

Mumbai, More than three decades after the 1992 communal riots and 1993 bomb blasts in Mumbai, the Maharashtra government has appealed to the legal heirs of 105 people who were either killed or went missing within a month. Appealed to contact the authorities to claim ex-gratia amount or delayed...

Kannur (Kerala): Senior Congress leader K Sudhakaran on Wednesday courted controversy by revealing how many people were killed by Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan by throwing bombs.The veteran leader made this comment against the CM when journalists sought his reaction on the recent death of an...

Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan admitted in the state Assembly on Wednesday that there have been repeated incidents of bomb blasts in some areas of the northern district of Kannur and said the police will investigate there more strictly.Vijayan said this while...

Mumbai: The Bombay High Court on Monday allowed a convict in the 7/11 serial train blasts case to appear for a paper in the second semester law examination from Nashik Central Jail.Convict Mohammad Sajid Margoob Ansari had sought permission to appear in the second semester law examination...

Kolhapur (Maharashtra) [India], A 70-year-old convict serving life imprisonment in the 1993 Mumbai serial bomb blasts was beaten to death by five inmates inside the Kalamba Central Jail in Maharashtra's Kolhapur district.The incident took place around 7.30 am on Sunday when the deceased was...

Mumbai: A convict in the 1993 Mumbai serial bomb blasts case was fatally attacked by five inmates in Kolhapur's Kalamba Central Jail on Sunday, police said.Prima facie, 59-year-old Munna alias Mohammed Ali Khan alias Manoj Kumar Bhawarlal Gupta was attacked due to an argument with other...

MUMBAI: Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on Tuesday hit out at the Rewa Shiv Sena (UBT), saying their brand of Hindutva and nationalism meant that 1993 Mumbai serial bomb blasts accused Iqbal Musa alias Baba Chauhan would not be allowed to contest against him in the Lok Sabha elections...

Jaipur: Some schools in Jaipur received bomb threats through emails on Monday morning, causing panic among students and their parents, police said.However, no explosives or anything suspicious has been found in these schools so far.The threatening emails came on the 16th anniversary of the...

Amethi (Uttar Pradesh) [India], Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Sunday took a dig at the Congress government's stand on "redistribution of wealth" and said the Congress party has an eye on the public's wealth. In Amethi, Uttar Pradesh, Yogi Adityanath said, "Congress, SP and BSP...

Hyderabad: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday alleged that Congress is "anti-Hindu" and its track record is of "plunder, appeasement and dynasty-first".Modi, who addressed election rallies in Hyderabad and Mahabubnagar Lok Sabha constituencies in Telangana, expressed confidence that "those...

Mumbai, BJP on Thursday claimed that 1993 serial bomb blasts accused Iqbal Mus alias Baba Chauhan was seen at Shiv Sena's Lok Sabha campaign rally (including UBT Mumbai North West candidate Amol Kirtikar).Musa and Kirtikar denied the allegations, with both claiming that they did not know each...

Pune: Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Monday accused the Congress of speaking the "language of Pakistan", amid a row over party leader Vija Wadettiwar's allegation that then ATS chief Hemant Karkare was killed not by terrorist Azma Kasab but by RSS-affiliated policemen...

KARACHI: At least one person was killed and 17 others injured in twin landmine blasts in Pakistan's restive Balochistan province, police said Thursday.The blasts occurred in the province's Dukki district and echoed throughout the city, causing panic among residents.Police said the first...

Balochistan [Pakistan], One person was killed and 20 others were injured in twin landmine blasts in Thaikedar Naddi in Duqi district of Balochistan, ARY News reports. According to details, the first blast occurred when a truck hit a landmine, followed by the second as people gathered at the...

New Delhi [India], The Delhi High Court on Monday refused bail to three Indian Mujahideen (IM) operatives accused in the 2008 Delhi serial blasts case. Although the high court refused to grant him bail, it asked the trial court to expedite the trial. Since the accused persons have been behind...